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Monday, May 6, 2013

Kohl 5K

Had a much better race than I expected at the Kohl Elementary 5K this past weekend. I was curious where my speed fitness was before the Bolder Boulder later this month. With GZ pushing me I was able to hit a new PR of 18:31. Thanks GZ! You can see his longer report here.

My whole approach to this race was to try and run by heart rate. Keeping it between 170-175 the first 2 miles and ignore it the last 1.1 miles. This approach seems to work good for me for the 5K distance. I am not sure how I am going to approach the 10K yet. Maybe 165-170?

4 comments:

Nice work. For what it is worth, my watch shows that I was faster than you for both mile one and 2, even though I was behind you by the first turn into the course. My pace over the last 1.1 however was never better than 6 minute pace ... and you blew me away there.

That is weird, I wonder if my watch is off. I am pretty pleased with this result for me, it is now my PR. I would like to see a 17:somthing but I don't think I will ever hit that. Good seeing ya out there and thanks again for letting me borrow that book.